The CRTC is issuing a call for applications from interested parties wishing to obtain a radio licence to serve Calgary, Alta., having found that the market can sustain at least one additional radio station. “The market may best be served by proposals for ethnic and...
The CRTC has decided to look at whether the town of Yellowknife, NWT can support another FM radio station. The commission announced Thursday that it is calling on all interested parties to file an application. Last May, 506992 N.W.T. Ltd. – operating as Cabin Radio –...
The Superior Court of Quebec has dismissed a request from RNC Media Inc. to...
Corus Entertainment Inc., Stingray Radio Inc., and...
The Bloc Québécois is calling for CBC/Radio-Canada to have its funding...
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public...
The CRTC has initiated a special consultation process regarding an application for amendments to the conditions of service for a French-language community radio station based...
Representatives from several community radio stations emphasized their role as a third-pillar of the...
Rogers Communications Inc. has shuttered its all-news station in the...
The CRTC Friday granted an FM licence to Four Senses Entertainment Inc. to...
The CRTC issued another short-term broadcasting licence renewal after it...
The CRTC will defer new applications and complaints relating to radio as it...
A community radio station in Parrsboro, Nova...
Once again the CRTC has decided to issue a short term renewal licence to a...
Two radio stations in British Columbia have been granted short-term...
The CRTC has denied a request from Rogers Communications Inc. to delete the CanCon condition of license (COL) for Kitchener’s Country 106.7 radio station, CIKZ-FM. In a...
The CRTC denied SiriusXM Canada Inc.’s request for relief from its...
CRTC Commissioner Nirmala Naidoo urged members of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) to participate in consultations...
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...
The CRTC has issued the broadcasting licence fees for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The estimated total...
The CRTC Thursday approved a radio broadcasting license for Piikani Resource Development Ltd. on behalf of Piikani Tsi Nii Ka Sin Broadcasting Association to broadcast a low-power Indigenous FM radio station in Brocket, Alberta. Piikani Broadcasting is a not-for-profit,...
The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...
After years of consideration, the CRTC determined that Yellowknife, NWT...
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has found that...
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy...
Monday the CRTC opened up the radio market in Joliette, Que., calling for...
The CRTC Tuesday approved a proposal for an FM station serving La Crete, Alta. Two years ago the...
Monday the CRTC approved an application by Malayalam Commercial Radio Inc. for a low-power commercial...
The CRTC has revised its rules for Canadian content in commercial radio. In...
The CRTC announced Monday that it will hold proceedings in February to consider six applications before it. Two are proposals for new stations, two are transfers of existing stations and two are for rebroadcasting transmitters. Pickering College Campus Radio is asking for...
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) told the...
Executives from the French-language music group...
The Rouyn-Noranda market cannot support another...
Television revenues are rebounding from the pandemic slump while revenues...
The CRTC denied a request filed by Sarnia Media and Entertainment Inc. for a broadcasting licence to operate an English-language low-power commercial FM radio station in...
More than 50 personalities for CBC/...
The CRTC has granted a sweeping flexibility that paves the way for CBC/Radio-Canada to shift toward a...
Friday the CRTC approved an application by the Burns Lake & District...
Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies...
The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's...
The CRTC approved two separate applications by Cogeco Inc. and Arsenal Media which would essentially see...
The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...
The commission is holding a hearing for two separate applications for a...
The CRTC has received widespread support for a new community ethnic FM station in Winnipeg, according to interventions filed with the commission. The regulator is currently assessing if another station should start broadcasting in the Manitoba capital at 88.7 on the dial....
The CRTC Wednesday approved the transfer of two English-language AM radio...
On Monday the CRTC granted a licence to a new community FM station on Salt...
Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy reiterated a long-standing call...
The CRTC is calling for comments on a series of FM radio applications in smaller markets across the...
The CRTC Friday rejected an application for a broadcast license to operate a "low-power, ethnic specialty commercial"radio station in the Mennonite community of La Crête,...
The CRTC is holding a consultation to determine a series of applications...
Local Radio Lab Inc. will be picking up three stations near the Greater Toronto area following approval of its application Friday by the CRTC. The broadcaster is acquiring three English-language stations -- CIMA-FM Alliston,...
The CRTC has denied an application from Amherstburg Broadcasting...
The CRTC has approved a new broadcasting licence for Mohawk Multi Media Inc., allowing it to operate an English and Kanien’ke:ha (Mohawk) language Indigenous ration station in Kanesatake/Oka,...
The CRTC approved a request from broadcaster Stingray Group Inc. Wednesday, asking that it be allowed to change its English-language discretionary service, Stingray HITS, into a French service. According to the decision, the...
The CRTC has denied Byrnes Communications Inc.’s request to amend its broadcasting licence so that its Fort Erie station is no longer bound to broadcast a minimum of three hours of news programming...
Mohawk Multi Media Inc. was given the green light by the CRTC to acquire the assets of CKHQ-FM, a low-power English and Mohawk language Indigenous radio station broadcasting in Kanesatake and Oka,...
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will hear an appeal from Music Canada and the Society of...
Numerous advocacy groups and smaller broadcasters are recommending that the CRTC avoid cutting Canadian Content quotas for radio stations. These views come from a broad group of intervenors, writing in response to the Commission’s consultation on Canadian commercial...
The CRTC needs to do away with restrictive regulations, argue multiple...
A new survey suggests that just over half of Canadians believe that...
The CRTC has extended its deadline for interventions to its commercial radio policy framework review following a procedural request from various associations representing the music sector....
The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected an application for leave to appeal by a broadcaster whose radio licence was denied renewal by the CRTC. The CRTC denied the licence renewal for Groupe...
Canadian content programming relief from the CRTC would allow BCE Inc.'s radio stations to more effectively compete with streaming giants like Spotify AB, according to Bell...
The CRTC has launched a consultation to review its regulatory framework for the commercial radio sector. It said in Thursday’s notice of consultation that it’s looking to “update the regulatory framework to best serve the...
The National Campus and Community Radio Association, Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada and Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec have filed a joint intervention arguing...
After the CRTC refused to renew its broadcast licence earlier this summer, Groupe Médias Pam Inc. has turned to the Federal Court of Appeal, asking it to overturn that CRTC decision. In July, the regulator denied the renewal...
Canadian traditional media sources are in "crisis" as COVID-19 has exacerbated existing downward trends in advertising revenues, with shortfalls for local private broadcasters in the next two years...
Two Nunavut radio stations owned by Northern Lights Entertainment Inc. have had their broadcasting licences extended for just two years after the CRTC found they had failed to comply with a series of...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters asked the CRTC not to enforce...
In its first quarterly report to include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cogeco Inc.’s radio revenues fell by one-third, though its overall revenue beat analyst expectations. In the results...
The CRTC has said no to two applications for new radio stations -- one in...
The financial impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdowns led to a “very tough quarter” for Corus Entertainment Inc. as advertising revenue dropped dramatically, CEO Doug Murphy told analysts on Friday, with total revenues dropping 24 per cent on the year before to $348.9...
The Scarborough radio market can’t support another commercial radio...
The CRTC will review the policy framework surrounding commercial radio in Canada, including media consolidation rules, quotas of Canadian content and limits on the amount of top 40 songs...
The CRTC says there’s no immediate plans to change the regulations governing Canada’s emergency alert system after an Ontario -wide alert about an incident at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station was sent in error. ...
Corus Entertainment Inc. this morning reported television revenue either in line or slightly higher than...
An Alberta court has sided with Corus Entertainment Inc. in banning the use of the broadcaster’s lapsed trademark by a radio station that just rebranded this summer. Power 107 is a pop music station run by Calgary-based Harvard Broadcasting Inc. that launched in...
BCE Inc. and Stingray Group Inc. have launched a targeted advertising platform that allows ads to be placed on their radio stations, audio streaming apps and podcasts. The companies said in a press...
Ahead of its renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences, the...
The CRTC has approved an acquisition by Stingray Group Inc. of the radio station CHOO-FM in Drumheller,...
The independence of the panel that will determine which print news...
CRTC chairman and CEO Ian Scott told a broadcasting conference Tuesday that the commission is “prepared to be flexible with new approaches to regulation” as it prepares to review its policy for...
Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news...
Rogers Communications Inc. today announced that it is acquiring the Vancouver-based podcast company Pacific Content. “Podcasting is a big part of the future of audio. We quickly identified its immense potential and are being...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said it will see TV ad growth in the third quarter...
The CRTC wants to know whether the Vancouver radio market can sustain another radio station, after it received an application from Rogers Communications Inc. for a new broadcasting licence. It said in the notice of consultation Thursday that any other parties interested in serving that market should speak up during the consultation process. They should also identify the frequency any proposed station would use, the CRTC said, noting that there is a scarcity of spectrum in Vancouver and the Rogers station would use a frequency it currently has a licence for, to use for a rebroadcasting...
BCE Inc.’s media division is asking the CRTC to allow it to shutter 28 of its rebroadcasting...
The CRTC has decided the Timmins, Ontario commercial radio market can’t sustain another station, rejecting an application by Vista Radio Ltd. for another broadcasting licence. Timmins has four...
An illegal radio station that allegedly kept operating despite being shut down by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has been off the air since last August, the government said in a response tabled on...
As the Liberal government unveils its last budget before the upcoming...
The National NewsMedia Council wrote to the expert panel reviewing Canada’s broadcasting laws to express concern about a “gap in the current public complaints framework...
The majority of Canadian wireless providers who weighed in on a proposal to...
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
The CRTC has launched consultations on the radio market capacity of Vernon, B.C., Grande Prairie, Alta., and Scarborough, Ont. It said in the notices of consultation published Tuesday that it had received applications for new...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported quarterly results Friday that showed TV ad revenue increasing 3.6 per...
Montreal-based Stingray Group Inc.’s radio arm says it has entered into an agreement to acquire the...
The current requirements for emergency alert tests, which specify a different schedule for...
The CRTC plans to soon start measuring the participation of women in television production and how much big TV broadcasters spend on production of Indigenous and official language minority...
The CRTC has rejected two warring bidders who wanted to set up commercial...
In a trio of decisions Monday, the CRTC approved a broadcast licence application for a new station in Cochrane, Alta., and declined both an application for a new station in Lachute, Que. and to renew a defunct community station’s existing licence. The commission said Golden West Broadcasting Ltd. can launch a commercial FM country music station in Cochrane, despite turning down a similar application from the company two years ago over concerns it could have a negative impact on the nearby...